John O'Connor

jig

Key signature: Gmajor

Submitted on September 16th 2004 by dlowder.

This tune has been added to 22 tunebooks.

Also known as The Belfast Allmanack, Belfast Almanac, The Belfast Almanac, The Bellfast Allmanack, Planxty Connor, Planxty Mrs. O'Connor.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• Carolan's Receipt: The Music Of Carolan, Vol. 1 by Derek Bell
• Celtic Dreams (Music Of Turlough O'Carolan On The Hammered Dulcimer, Volume III) by Joemy Wilson
• Celtic Harp II: From A Distant Time by Patrick Ball
• The Belfast Harp Festival by Grainne Yeats
• The Bluebell Polka by Jimmy Shand
• The Carolan's Album by Maire Ni Chathasaigh And Chris Newman
• The Complete Works Of Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) - Disc 4 by J.J. Sheridan
• The O'Carolan Quartet by The O'Carolan Quartet

X: 1
T: John O'Connor
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
D | G2~G FED | E2F G2A | B2G c2A | BAG cBA |
Bcd ~EGE | FGA DED | GFE DB,D | G3 G2 :|
z | ded def | ~g3 g2G | cdc cBc | e3 e2c |
dcB cBA | Bcd D2D | EFG AFD | G3 G2 :|
z | BGE EGE | AFD DFD | E/F/GE F/G/AG | ~F3 D2c |
Bcd dBG | cde ecA | GFE AFD | G3 G2 :|

John O'Connor

This is a tune by O'Carolan, as I heard it on the album "Chieftains 7".

# Posted on September 16th 2004 by dlowder

There's a 2-part setting of this in The Athole Collection, entitled 'The Belfast Almanac'. I can't post it here because my copy of the book is in Latvia and I am in London.

# Posted on September 17th 2004 by ragaman